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Washington · Nonprofit
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT (Washington) is funded by 9 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,036,930 in grants to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS INC ($543,280). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 883 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 883 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
$49k from 1 funders in 2024, up from $197k and 2 in 2020.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 75% · 2021 87% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% · 2024 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
0% of THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 22% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Washington — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
61% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 9funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing